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Fiction Terms 7th grade

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Definition
Narrator   The person telling the story.  
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Resolution   Happens at the end of the story. It is the part when the final outcome happens.  
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Character   The person or animal that takes part in a story.  
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Setting   The time, place, and duration of the story.  
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Plot   A series of events that make up the beginning, middle , and end of the story.  
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Conflict   The problem in the story.  
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Internal Conflict   The character has problems with feelings inside his own mind or thoughts.  
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Theme   The lesson or message about life that the author is trying to teach the reader.  
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External Conflict   The character has problems with another character or some outside force.  
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Character Traits   The author's description of a character, based on how the character looks, speaks, acts, and thinks.  
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Fiction   A story that is made up or not true.  
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Title   The name of a piece of literature.  
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Author   The person who writes a piece of literature.  
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Point of View   The perspective from which a story is told.  
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First Person Point of View   When the narrator is a character in the story and uses pronouns like I, me, my.  
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Third Person Point of View   When the narrator is NOT in the story and uses pronouns like he, she, it, they.  
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Protagonist   The main character in a story.  
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Antagonist   The character who is against the protagonist.  
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Rising Action   Events that increase or raise the tension and lead toward the climax.  
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Climax   The most exciting part of the story, the turning point in the story.  
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Falling Action   Events that follow the climax.  
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Exposition   The beginning of the story when characters and setting are introduced.  
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Initiating Event   Event that happens at the beginning of the story that introduces the conflict.  
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Third person limited   Point of view where one character's thoughts and feelings are revealed.  
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Third person omniscient   Point of view where all the characters' thoughts and feelings are revealed.  
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Foreshadowing   Giving a hint that something is going to happen later in the story.  
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Symbolism   When an idea, feeling, emotion, or other concept is represented by something else.  
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Irony   Create an outcome that is opposite from what is expected.  
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Flashback   An interruption in the present of a vivid memory from the past.  
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